Kirby Doyle, born Stanton Doyle, was an American poet.
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10 Facts About Kirby Doyle
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Kirby Doyle was featured in the New American Poetry anthology, with the so-called "third generation" of American modernist poets.
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Kirby Doyle was one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets who laid the groundwork for Beat poetry in San Francisco.
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Kirby Doyle's work appeared alongside that of Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg in the Spring, 1958 issue of Chicago Review, which was devoted to "San Francisco Renaissance" writers.
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Kirby Doyle adored the works of John Keats, Emily Dickinson and the great 'projective verse' of Charles Olson.
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Kirby Doyle was a mainstay of the North Beach literary scene in San Francisco from the late seventies until his incarceration in Laguna Honda hospital for dementia and the effects of diabetes.
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Kirby Doyle was an original Beat, loose-jointed, with a great laugh.
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Kirby Doyle died on April 5, 2003 in Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco.
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Kirby Doyle was one of the few writers of the San Francisco Renaissance who were both born and died in the city.
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NEWS FLASH: the Kirby Doyle papers were acquired by The Mandeville Special Collections Library at San Diego in 2012; and the scroll of Happiness Bastard was acquired by Harvard University in 2014.
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